PREP it happened to me, I should have known better

mortgageboss

mortgageboss

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I lost a bunch of prep items when i sold a building that i used for storage. mostly food but a few other items like water purification items and electronics.
A family member whom i trusted with the cleanout didnt do a good job.. a health issue prevented me from traveling out off state.
Moral to the story: if its not under your roof, you dont have it.

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mortgageboss said:
I lost a bunch of prep items when i sold a building that i used for storage. mostly food but a few other items like water purification items and electronics.
A family member whom i trusted with the cleanout didnt do a good job.. a health issue prevented me from traveling out off state.
Moral to the story: if its not under your roof, you dont have it.

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Hopefully you made out well enough on the sale to replace as necessary.

Luckily, we still can.

It would really hurt if were in a period when the materials were 'unobtainium' - and likely that's when there's the greatest chance of things disappearing.
 
mortgageboss said:
I lost a bunch of prep items when i sold a building that i used for storage. mostly food but a few other items like water purification items and electronics.
A family member whom i trusted with the cleanout didnt do a good job.. a health issue prevented me from traveling out off state.
Moral to the story: if its not under your roof, you dont have it.

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It happens.
More than anyone would like to admit.
 
mortgageboss said:
I lost a bunch of prep items when i sold a building that i used for storage. mostly food but a few other items like water purification items and electronics.
A family member whom i trusted with the cleanout didnt do a good job.. a health issue prevented me from traveling out off state.
Moral to the story: if its not under your roof, you dont have it.

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Sorry for your loss -

I know what it feels like to be sick and have to rely on others.. That feeling alone is almost worse then dealing with the health problems..

I am building a new house (small, efficient) for my boys and I'm about a month behind (weather, materials, etc) and have a bunch of people offering to help.. Am so hesitant and haven't taken anyone up on help just because I know how am going to do it, and don't want to wonder/go back over anything someone else might have been working to bring it up to a standard I'd like to see.. Have had family from out of state here at various times helping, but we've built a lot of stuff over the years and have zero concerns.

Hopefully you haven't lost anything that won't be easy for you to replace. =)
 
I can't know your situation. Reading between the lines and "projecting" a little... :)

Our family members have different perspectives. Speaking personally I know that a "35 year shelf life" on food won't matter much to me. (Still think I'm "middle-aged" but that's getting more comical with each passing year)

Downsize. Rather rightsize for your home situation.
 
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mortgageboss said:
I lost a bunch of prep items when i sold a building that i used for storage. mostly food but a few other items like water purification items and electronics.
A family member whom i trusted with the cleanout didnt do a good job.. a health issue prevented me from traveling out off state.
Moral to the story: if its not under your roof, you dont have it.

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Learned this lesson from an acquaintance who stored preps in a storage unit. When an emergency hit there was no access to the unit. There was no way she could physically climb the fence.
 
ssonb said:
Kinda like an older gentleman that bought himself a real nice older home and that at over 85 and getting a loan on a 30 year note was funny.
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A friend of mine does carports, awnings, metal buildings, and such. Harold is 77 years old, and these are his last year or two for his business. He's been doing it for over 50 years and has an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau.

The other day, they did a job for a man, that was pushing 90 years old. When they got finished, the man asked what kind of guarantee he gives on his work. Harold looked at him and said, "For you, it's a Life Time Guarantee".
 
We're back from a storage unit we'd left for years. We stacked plastic bins containing packages of food the manufacture claimed would be good for twenty five years. An expensive insurance policy that brought some peace of mind. The plastic looked like it had become brittle over time and broke. Sigh. It may be interesting to see if the mice left anything and if it's edible?
 
If it's not under your roof, it's not under your hoof.

Yeah. Bad poetry.
(I can't win them all, lol.)

You can trust your backup stash, but you can't trust the marauders who might find it.

Before my father passed, I took everything of value to my house.
Did the same before my mother passed, many years before.

The only resources I have left that I can't put an eye on are those that lie on the bottom of a lake somewhere.
:whistle:

I'm lucky.
I found a good place to buy a roof in.


The world has changed much since Orwell shared his fever dream.

It's so much worse than he imagined...
 
i used to have some nice conversations with jerry d young ..old school steel garbage cans make for very good storage of long term preps ..because i brought up rodents and their problems .and also storing paper goods .like tp and how to keep vermin out of things like that
 
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